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D5: move in, and give the assembler somewhere to look

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The demo disk is three directories instead of thirty nine names in one list
with cosmos.asm sitting between fileStream.asm and sbfs.asm:

  /Apps    what you run
  /Source  what you name to the assembler
  /Lib     what those include

The split is by ROLE rather than by which directory the host keeps a file in.
Everything in /Lib is named by an #Include somewhere and by nothing else, which
is what makes it a library rather than a source.

THAT LAYOUT WAS NOT POSSIBLE UNTIL NOW, and finding out why is what this rung
actually cost. An include on the machine was a bare name resolved where you
stood, so every source that calls a service had to sit in the same directory as
services.asm - which is every source worth having. The first arrangement of
this disk put the examples in a directory of their own and none of them would
assemble.

So the native assembler has a search path: beside you, then /Lib. The same rule
the shell already uses for a program it does not recognise, applied to the
thing that reads source, and the same reasoning for it being two fixed places
rather than a list - a list needs somewhere to live between one boot and the
next, and there is no such place yet. It also brings the native assembler
nearer the host one, which has searched -I directories since before there was a
machine to run this on.

The reader's per-file state grew from 293 bytes to 301, because the name it
keeps is a path now and every block of a file is asked for by it. Six of those
would no longer fit the room set aside, so the include list moved up a page.
Both numbers are written down in two places on purpose and both were changed.

dir said cosmos.asm was 17,460 bytes. It is 82,996. The size came out of the
block count's LOW BYTE shifted up and the tail beneath it, which is sixteen
bits, so anything from 256 blocks upward came back as itself less 65,536 - a
plausible number, and wrong. Files that big say their size in blocks now.
Printing the true figure wants decimal printing twenty four bits wide, which is
a page of console.asm to say something nobody reads more precisely than "big".

The Assembler Manual's line about SBFS being flat was the last thing in the
repository still claiming it, and docs.sh now looks for that phrase and three
like it in all four documents. Not a section that is wrong - one clause inside
a paragraph that is otherwise right, which is the shape this kind of staleness
takes.

The duplicate puts are gone with the wildcard that caused them, so building the
disk is quiet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E2JrLzFvuFX9fgi1LDRjrW
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Anachronaut
2026-08-25 10:04:12 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent da91a36d92
commit 06bdbf7728
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Programs/CosmOS/Assembler/scratch.asm
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@@ -19,12 +19,17 @@
; 0x8C00 8192 the label names, packed end to end
; 0xAC00 13312 the output file being built
; 0xE000 1792 the vector names, 64 entries of twenty eight
; 0xE700 1758 the reader's stack, six levels of 293
; 0xEE00 368 which files have been included, sixteen names of 23
; 0xE700 2048 the reader's stack, six levels of 301
; 0xEF00 368 which files have been included, sixteen names of 23
;
; That ends at 0xEF70, with the Stack coming down from 0xFFFF above it - about four
; That ends at 0xF070, with the Stack coming down from 0xFFFF above it - nearly four
; kilobytes, against the tens of bytes of CALL frames this ever nests.
;
; The reader's levels went from 293 to 301 when an include gained somewhere to be looked
; for: the name in each level is a PATH now, and "/Lib/" is five characters of it. Six
; levels of 301 is 1806, so the room here has to stay above that - which is why the include
; list moved up rather than the stack simply being asked to fit.
;
; THE TWO THINGS THAT DECIDE THESE SIZES are the largest program it will be asked to build
; and the largest one it will be asked to read. CosmOS is 475 labels and 9,564 bytes of
; output; the assembler itself is 555 labels, about 6,800 bytes of name and 11,648 of output. The
@@ -41,4 +46,4 @@ ScratchVecNames:
ScratchSrcStack:
0xE7 0x00
ScratchIncNames:
0xEE 0x00
0xEF 0x00
Programs/CosmOS/Assembler/source.asm
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@@ -189,13 +189,53 @@ srcInclude:
CALL srcRemember
CALL srcPush
; TWO PLACES, TRIED IN ORDER: where you are, and then /Lib. The same rule the shell uses
; for a program it does not recognise, which is where it came from - a name means the
; one beside you if there is one, and the system's otherwise.
;
; It is what a search path is for, and the host assembler has had one since before there
; was a machine to run this on. Without it every source that calls a service has to sit
; in the same directory as services.asm, and the disk cannot be organised at all.
SETD.0 IncWanted
SETD.1 SrcName
CALL srcKeepName
CALL srcRewind
BRQ srcIncludeIn
CALL srcInLibrary
CALL srcRewind
BNQ srcIncludeGone
srcIncludeIn:
RET ; Q is zero, out of srcRewind.
; SrcName becomes the same name inside the library directory. Built here rather than kept
; as a second buffer, because what has to survive is the name the file was ASKED for -
; that is what the include-once list holds, and a file found in the library on one line
; and beside you on another is still the same include.
srcInLibrary:
SETD.0 SrcLibrary
SETD.1 SrcName
srcLibraryPrefix:
LDA.0
BRA srcLibraryName
STA.1
INCD.0
INCD.1
BRI srcLibraryPrefix
srcLibraryName:
SETD.0 IncWanted
srcLibraryCopy:
LDA.0
STA.1
BRA srcLibraryDone
INCD.0
INCD.1
BRI srcLibraryCopy
srcLibraryDone:
RET
srcIncludeSkip:
RSTA
RSTB
@@ -483,8 +523,12 @@ srcKeepEnd:
; ---- The current file, as one block so that it can be put aside in one piece ----
;
SrcState:
; THIRTY TWO RATHER THAN THE TWENTY THREE A NAME NEEDS, because what goes here is a PATH:
; an include not found beside you is looked for in the library, and "/Lib/" plus a name of
; twenty two plus the zero that ends it is twenty eight. Every block of the file is asked
; for by this name, so it has to be the one that resolves, not the one that was typed.
SrcName:
#Reserve 0d23
#Reserve 0d32
SrcBlocks:
0x00 0x00
SrcIndex:
@@ -504,12 +548,19 @@ SrcEnded:
SrcBuffer:
#Reserve 0d256
; 292 bytes: a name of 23, six numbers of two, one single byte, and the buffer. NOTHING MAY
; BE ADDED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BLOCK ABOVE without changing this to match.
; 301 bytes: a name of 32, six numbers of two, one single byte, and the buffer. NOTHING MAY
; BE ADDED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BLOCK ABOVE without changing this to match, and the room
; set aside for six of them in scratch.asm has to be at least six times it.
SrcStateBytes:
0x01 0x24
0x01 0x2D
SrcDepthLimit:
0d6
; Where an include is looked for when it is not beside you. One fixed place rather than a
; list somebody sets, for the same reason the shell has one fixed place for programs: a
; list would need somewhere to live between one boot and the next.
SrcLibrary:
"/Lib/"
SrcOne:
0x00 0x01
Programs/CosmOS/README.md
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@@ -281,6 +281,35 @@ CosmOS also boots without a disk. It reports that no filesystem was found, leave
shell and memory monitor available, and refuses commands that require a mounted disk
without stopping the machine.
## What Is On The Disk:
`make -C Programs cosmos-disk` builds the disk this system is meant to be met on, and it is
laid out in three directories:
| Where | What |
| -- | -- |
| `/Apps` | The programs. The second place the shell looks for a word it does not recognise, so anything here starts by name from anywhere on the disk. |
| `/Source` | The things you name to the assembler: CosmOS itself, the assembler itself, and small programs to read. |
| `/Lib` | The things those include. Everything here is named by an `#Include` somewhere and by nothing else, which is what makes it a library rather than a source. |
The split is by role rather than by which directory the host keeps a file in, and it only
works because **an include is looked for where you are and then in `/Lib`** - the same rule
the shell uses for programs, applied to the assembler. Without that search every source
that calls a service would have to sit beside `services.asm`, and there would be nothing to
organise.
So the machine rebuilds itself from its own disk:
```text
> cd /Source
/Source> Asm cosmos.asm
wrote cosmos.bin: program 9778, data 3346, labels 648
/Source> Asm Asm.asm
wrote Asm.sbx: program 7570, data 4114, labels 562
```
Both come out byte for byte what the host assembler makes from the same source.
## Included Applications:
`Programs/CosmOS/Apps` holds what the shell can load, and the application disk is built
Programs/CosmOS/Source/cosmos.asm
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@@ -363,6 +363,21 @@ dirCheck:
; A file's length is its block count times 256 plus its tail, which is the block count
; in the high byte and the tail in the low one. Nothing has to multiply anything.
;
; THAT ONLY WORKS WHILE THE BLOCK COUNT FITS IN A BYTE. Two hundred and fifty six blocks
; is sixty five thousand five hundred and thirty six bytes, and the number that comes out
; of the shift is sixteen bits wide - so a file of that size or more came out as itself
; less 65536, which is a plausible number and a wrong one. cosmos.asm is 82,996 bytes and
; this called it 17,460.
;
; Such a file says its size in BLOCKS instead. Printing the true figure would want
; decimal printing twenty four bits wide, which is a page of console.asm to say something
; nobody reads more precisely than "big"; changing the unit says it exactly and can never
; be wrong.
SETD.0 SbfsFileBlocks
LDA.0
BNA dirInBlocks
SETD.0 SbfsFileBlocks
INCD.0
LDA.0
@@ -379,6 +394,14 @@ dirCheck:
CALL newLine
BRI dirStep
dirInBlocks:
SETD.0 SbfsFileBlocks
CALL printWordDecimal
SETD.0 BlocksText
CALL printString
CALL newLine
BRI dirStep
dirIsDirectory:
SETD.0 DirFolders
LDA.0
@@ -3185,6 +3208,8 @@ Farewell:
"halted"
DirectoryText:
"<dir>"
BlocksText:
" blocks"
NotDirectory:
"that is not a directory"
MadeText:
Programs/makefile
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@@ -112,44 +112,62 @@ cosmos: $(COSMOS) $(APPS) $(NATIVE_ASM)
# and twenty eight more names. The superblock has carried this number per disk since the
# format was written, so nothing but this line knows what it is.
$(COSMOS_DISK): $(APPS) $(NATIVE_ASM) testPrograms/stringKeyword.asm \
CosmOS/Apps/hello.asm CosmOS/Apps/Say.asm CosmOS/Apps/Keys.asm \
CosmOS/Source/services.asm CosmOS/Source/console.asm \
$(wildcard CosmOS/Apps/*.asm) \
$(wildcard CosmOS/Source/*.asm) $(wildcard CosmOS/Assembler/*.asm)
@mkdir -p $(@D)
rm -f $@
$(DISKTOOL) format $@ 4096 24
@for app in $(APPS); do $(DISKTOOL) put $@ $$app; done
$(DISKTOOL) put $@ $(NATIVE_ASM)
@# SOURCE goes on as well, because an assembler with nothing to assemble is a
@# demonstration of nothing.
@# THREE DIRECTORIES, WHICH IS WHAT A CLEAN INSTALL LOOKS LIKE: what you run, what you
@# assemble, and what those include. It was thirty nine files in one list with
@# cosmos.asm sitting between fileStream.asm and sbfs.asm.
@#
@# hello.asm and Say.asm are the APPLICATION versions, so each assembles to a .sbx
@# written straight over the one the host tool put there - which means the next
@# thing loaded is a program the machine built itself, in the same breath.
@# The split is by ROLE rather than by which directory the host keeps them in. /Source
@# holds the things you name to the assembler and /Lib the things they pull in, which is
@# a distinction the host makes with -I and the machine now makes with a search path of
@# its own: an include is looked for beside you and then in /Lib. Without that, every
@# source that calls a service would have to sit in the same directory as services.asm
@# and there would be nothing to organise.
$(DISKTOOL) mkdir $@ /Apps
$(DISKTOOL) mkdir $@ /Source
$(DISKTOOL) mkdir $@ /Lib
@# What you run. /Apps is the second place the shell looks when a word it does not know
@# turns out to be a program, so anything in here starts by name from anywhere.
@for app in $(APPS); do \
$(DISKTOOL) put $@ $$app /Apps/`basename $$app` >/dev/null || exit 1; done
$(DISKTOOL) put $@ $(NATIVE_ASM) /Apps/Asm.sbx
@# What you assemble. All of it, because an assembler with nothing to assemble is a
@# demonstration of nothing:
@#
@# Keys.asm is the one that brings a vector of its own, so assembling it exercises the
@# version two header and the Vector Segment: the loader installs its handler, the
@# console interrupts into it, and the shell takes the vector back at exit.
@#
@# strings.asm is the odd one out on purpose: it has no #Include and no #Base, so it
@# comes out as a boot image rather than a loadable program, and the difference
@# between the two is visible on one disk.
$(DISKTOOL) put $@ CosmOS/Apps/hello.asm
$(DISKTOOL) put $@ CosmOS/Apps/Say.asm
$(DISKTOOL) put $@ CosmOS/Apps/Keys.asm
$(DISKTOOL) put $@ CosmOS/Source/services.asm
$(DISKTOOL) put $@ CosmOS/Source/console.asm
$(DISKTOOL) put $@ testPrograms/stringKeyword.asm strings.asm
@# And the whole of CosmOS, and the whole of the assembler, so that the machine can
@# build the system it is running on and then build the thing that built it:
@#
@# > load Asm.sbx
@# > run cosmos.asm
@# > run Asm.asm
@# > cd /Source
@# /Source> Asm cosmos.asm the system it is running on
@# /Source> Asm Asm.asm and the thing that built it
@#
@# Both come out byte for byte what the host tool makes from the same source.
@for f in CosmOS/Source/*.asm CosmOS/Assembler/*.asm; do \
$(DISKTOOL) put $@ $$f >/dev/null; done
@#
@# Keys.asm brings a vector of its own, so assembling it exercises the version two
@# header and the Vector Segment: the loader installs its handler, the console
@# interrupts into it, and the shell takes the vector back at exit.
@#
@# strings.asm is the odd one out on purpose. It has no #Include and no #Base, so it
@# comes out as a boot image rather than a loadable program, and the difference between
@# the two is visible on one disk.
$(DISKTOOL) put $@ CosmOS/Source/cosmos.asm /Source/cosmos.asm
$(DISKTOOL) put $@ CosmOS/Assembler/Asm.asm /Source/Asm.asm
$(DISKTOOL) put $@ CosmOS/Assembler/readTest.asm /Source/readTest.asm
$(DISKTOOL) put $@ CosmOS/Assembler/tokenTest.asm /Source/tokenTest.asm
$(DISKTOOL) put $@ CosmOS/Apps/hello.asm /Source/hello.asm
$(DISKTOOL) put $@ CosmOS/Apps/Say.asm /Source/Say.asm
$(DISKTOOL) put $@ CosmOS/Apps/Keys.asm /Source/Keys.asm
$(DISKTOOL) put $@ testPrograms/stringKeyword.asm /Source/strings.asm
@# And what those include. Everything here is named by an #Include somewhere and by
@# nothing else, which is exactly what makes it a library rather than a source.
@for f in CosmOS/Source/console.asm CosmOS/Source/fileStream.asm \
CosmOS/Source/sbfs.asm CosmOS/Source/services.asm CosmOS/Source/text.asm \
CosmOS/Assembler/classify.asm CosmOS/Assembler/labels.asm \
CosmOS/Assembler/numbers.asm CosmOS/Assembler/scratch.asm \
CosmOS/Assembler/source.asm CosmOS/Assembler/table.asm \
CosmOS/Assembler/token.asm CosmOS/Assembler/vectors.asm; do \
$(DISKTOOL) put $@ $$f /Lib/`basename $$f` >/dev/null || exit 1; done
# The system as well as the disk. Building only the image leaves whatever cosmos.bin was
# there before, or none at all, and then the disk is booted with a system that does not